From: Argishti KHACHIK <argishti.khachik@itsolution.at>
To: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, brcm80211@lists.linux.dev
Cc: iommu@lists.linux.dev, regressions@lists.linux.dev
Subject: [REGRESSION] brcmfmac BCM43602: DMAR read faults and firmware timeouts on 7.3.3 with intel_iommu=on, works on 7.2.14 / with iommu=pt
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 2026 09:39:23 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <b010a7fa-73ea-43fa-a020-c2ea706295dd@itsolution.at> (raw)
Hi,
since updating from 7.2.14 to 7.3.3 (Fedora 44 kernels), the
BCM43602 Wi-Fi in my Dell XPS 15 9550 is unusable when the Intel
IOMMU is in translation mode. Booting with iommu=pt fixes it.
Hardware: Dell XPS 15 9550, BIOS 1.14.0 02/13/2020
Device: Broadcom BCM43602 [14e4:43ba], PCIe, brcmfmac (msgbuf)
Firmware: BCM43602/1 wl0: Nov 10 2015 06:38:10 version 7.35.177.61
(r598657) FWID 01-ea662a8c (linux-firmware)
Cmdline: ... intel_iommu=on
Results:
- 7.2.14-200.fc44.x86_64: works
- 7.3.3-200.fc44.x86_64: broken
- 7.3.3-200.fc44.x86_64 + iommu=pt: works
Userspace and firmware are identical in all three cases.
The firmware loads fine, then a few seconds later the IOMMU
rejects DMA reads from the card:
brcmfmac: brcmf_c_preinit_dcmds: Firmware: BCM43602/1 wl0: Nov 10
2015 06:38:10 version 7.35.177.61 (r598657) FWID 01-ea662a8c
brcmfmac 0000:02:00.0 wlp2s0: renamed from wlan0
DMAR: DRHD: handling fault status reg 2
DMAR: [DMA Read NO_PASID] Request device [0000:02:00.0] fault addr
0xfff83000 [fault reason 0x06] PTE Read access is not set
DMAR: [DMA Read NO_PASID] Request device [0000:02:00.0] fault addr
0xfff80000 [fault reason 0x06] PTE Read access is not set
DMAR: [DMA Read NO_PASID] Request device [0000:02:00.0] fault addr
0xfff7e000 [fault reason 0x06] PTE Read access is not set
After that, every firmware command times out:
ieee80211 phy0: brcmf_msgbuf_query_dcmd: Timeout on response for
query command
ieee80211 phy0: brcmf_cfg80211_get_channel: chanspec failed (-5)
ieee80211 phy0: brcmf_run_escan: error (-5)
ieee80211 phy0: brcmf_set_wsec: failed to change PSK in firmware (len=0)
and after about two minutes the command ring is full:
ieee80211 phy0: brcmf_msgbuf_tx_ioctl: Failed to reserve space in
commonring
ieee80211 phy0: brcmf_run_escan: error (-12)
Unloading and reloading brcmfmac reproduces the same DMAR faults
right after the firmware loads again.
User-visible effect: networks show up briefly, connecting never
completes, then the scan list goes empty. Boot is noticeably slower.
I can provide the full kernel log, test patches or bisect between
v7.2 and v7.3 if that helps.
#regzbot introduced: v7.2..v7.3
Thanks,
Argishti
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